Looking-Glass world explained

Looking-Glass world
Source:	Through the Looking-Glass
Creator:	Lewis Carroll
Genre:	Children's fantasy
Type:	Monarchy
Ruler:	White King, Red King
Ethnic Groups:	Whites, Reds
Locations:	Looking-Glass House, Garden of Live Flowers, The Old Sheep Shop, Humpty Dumpty's wall
People:	White Knight, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, White Queen, Red Queen
Blank Label:	Language(s)
Blank Data:	Looking-Glass language (mirror-image English)

The Looking-Glass world is the setting for Lewis Carroll's 1871 children's novel Through the Looking-Glass.

Geography

The entire country is divided into squares by a series of little brooks with hedges growing perpendicular to them.

Government

The land is contested by two competing factions, the Reds and the Whites. Each side has its King and Queen, bishops, knights, armies, and castles.

Inhabitants

• Haigha
• Hatta
• Humpty Dumpty
• The Lion and the Unicorn
• Red King
• Red Queen
• The Sheep
• Tweedledum and Tweedledee
• White King
• White Knight
• White Queen

In other media

• The Looking-glass world is featured in Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. In this series, the world is known as Wonderland and the Looking-glass world is just a realm within Wonderland, ruled by the Red King and Queen.

See also

• Wonderland (fictional country)

References

• Book: Manguel, Alberto . Alberto Manguel

. The Dictionary of Imaginary Places . Alberto Manguel . Gianni Guadalupi . . San Diego . Newly updated and expanded . 2000 . 0-15-600872-6 . registration . 382–383.

External links

• Map of "The Looking-Glass Lands" by Triple Ace Games